If you’re unfamiliar, the Bat Beauty Contest is an annual online competition run by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM), ...

Experiments where vampire bats were made to run on a treadmill have revealed how they extract energy from protein in their ...

Hoary Potter was crowned the winner of the 2024 Bat Beauty Contest, marking the third year in a row that Oregon bats have ...

Did you know that 17 different types of bats live in Northern California? Some are pollinators; others are insect eaters.

Hoary Potter, the hoary bat from Oregon, has won his final duel! On Halloween—the last day of International Bat Week—he ...

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice is facing a unique challenge with hundreds of thousands of bats taking over a decaying warehouse near the Huntsville prison.

Our authors can publish views that we may or may not agree with, but they show their work, distinguish facts from opinions, and make sure their analysis is clear and in no way misleading or deceptive.

On certain summer nights, you can find Richard Fritsky slowly driving the backroads of northeast Pennsylvania with a specialized microphone attached to the roof of his car. “The microphone picks up ...

The Bureau of Land Management’s annual Bat Beauty Contest returns! Two Oregon bats are set to defend their crown and try to ...

Many species of bats use echolocation to avoid obstacles like tree branches and hunt small insects as they fly through the dark. But it turns out echolocation for bats is much more than just a ...

UW-Madison students often find themselves living in run-down or distant off-campus options to able to afford housing in ...

Over the last two years, staff at the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center have worked to save bats from the dangers of the Russian full-scale invasion. Now, they join researchers at the Smithsonian Tr ...